----- Original Message ----- | On 2010-10-29 11.28, Eric Furman wrote: | > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:23 +0200, "Henning Brauer" | >> * James A. Peltier<jpelt...@sfu.ca> [2010-10-28 20:23]: | >>> What it offers: | >>> Kerberos security, | >> what again? | >>> selectable security level (-o sec=krb5/krb5i/krb5p), | >> ha ha ha ha | >>> firewall friendly | >> rrrrright | > And this huge infrastructure creation (nfsv4/Kerberos/blah blah) all | > so | > his users can type 'cp' and 'mv' instead of 'put' and 'get'? | > I don't get it. | > Also the last time I checked SFTP was supported on all the | > platforms he listed.... | > Or did I miss something? | | Oh come on, surely you can't fail to realize that there are actually | benefits to having all your data on one place, always? Especially if | you | have an environment where you might need to access it from several | different platforms. | | Not only in terms of user friendliness but also to avoid the problem | of | having to cope with several versions of the same data, or even the | problem of the data producer and consumer not being the same. And | those | were just some examples where a central networked file system comes in | really handy. | | (That the available options to solve the problem may not be perfect is | another matter entirely. I'm sure you can still appreciate the fact | that | the need may exist?) | | | Regards, | | /Benny | | | -- | internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must | Benny LC6fgren / mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, | / fax: +46 8 551 124 89 / not counted." | / email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se
<begin sarcasm> Sure they can! All these people ridiculing the choices have super advanced disk deduplication systems and infinite amounts of disk space which allows them to have tens of thousands of copies of the same data scattered everywhere. I mean <G> why would anyone ever want to try to securely share files from a centralized location. That's insanity! </end sarcasm> -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_s...@hotmail.com
